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1 Oregon Health Care Reform and Medicare/ Alignment Kate Sharaf, Office for Oregon Health Policy and Research November 2012

2 Focus of Presentation Oregon s Health System Transformation through the Coordinated Care Model Dually Eligible Individuals and Oregon s Demonstration CMS Demonstration Rate-setting Methodology 1

3 Oregon s Health System Transformation through the Coordinated Care Model 2

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5 Triple Aim: A new vision for Oregon 4

6 Coordinated Care Organizations 5

7 Expectations: CCO Criteria Coordinate physical, mental health and chemical dependency services, oral health care. Encourage prevention and health through alternative payments to providers. Engage community members/health care providers in improving health of community. Address regional, cultural, socioeconomic and racial disparities in health care. Manage financial risk, establish financial reserves, meet minimum financial requirements. Operate within a global budget. 6

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9 Dually Eligible Individuals and Oregon s Demonstration 8

10 Dually Eligible Individuals in Oregon Approximately 59,000 full dually eligible individuals High managed care penetration: 47% are in managed Medicare (many in SNPs) 61% are in managed Often in the same plan for both Medicare and Approximately 24,000 (about 40%) of dually eligible individuals receive long term care services for aged or physically disabled individuals 80% of these individuals receive services in a home or community based setting 9

11 Oregon s Medicare/ Alignment Proposal Oregon is one of 15 states with a design contract with CMS to develop a demonstration proposal to integrate care for dually eligible individuals Proposal submitted to CMS in May was for capitated financial alignment model, building on CCO model Proposal included passive enrollment with opt-out Long Term Care legislatively excluded from CCOs, proposal included shared accountability approach 10

12 Oregon Decision on Demonstration Oregon has recently decided not to pursue full financial alignment demonstration any further main issue is rates won t work for Oregon, due in part to Oregonspecific factors Instead, Oregon will explore a modified demonstration with CMS, focusing on delivery system reforms underway in CCOs and Medicare/ administrative alignments with no financial component Without a financing model that achieves Medicare savings, we do not expect that CMS would approve passive enrollment into CCOs for Medicare services 11

13 CMS Demonstration Rate-setting Methodology 12

14 Overview of CMS rate-setting methodology Prospective Savings Quality Withhold Separate Part D payment Medicare A/B base rate Savings % taken off rate Medicare Risk Adjustment 1-3 % taken off rate Medicare A/B portion of blended rate base rate Savings % taken off rate Risk Adjustment 1-3 % taken off rate portion of blended rate 13 Based 0n CMS memo, Joint Rate-Setting Process Under the Capitated Financial Alignment Initiative, May Coordination/Medicare-and--Coordination/Medicare--Coordination-Office/Downloads/JointRateSettingProcess.pdf

15 Overview of CMS rate-setting methodology Prospective Savings Quality Withhold Separate Part D payment Medicare A/B base rate Savings % taken off rate Medicare Risk Adjustment 1-3 % taken off rate Medicare A/B portion of blended rate base rate Savings % taken off rate Risk Adjustment 1-3 % taken off rate portion of blended rate Based 0n CMS memo, Joint Rate-Setting Process Under the Capitated Financial Alignment Initiative, May

16 Medicare A/B Base Rate CMS goal: ensure spending under demonstration no higher than would have been in absence of demonstration Medicare Advantage Portion: Historical county-wide bids trended forward and compared to projected benchmarks for each year. Accounts for star bonuses and rebates at county (not plan) level. Medicare FFS Portion: Historical standardized per capita county spending trended forward. CMS will adjust for SGR fix if passed. Blended based on % of enrollees coming from MA vs. FFS 15

17 Overview of CMS rate-setting methodology Prospective Savings Quality Withhold Separate Part D payment Medicare A/B base rate Savings % taken off rate Medicare Risk Adjustment 1-3 % taken off rate Medicare A/B portion of blended rate base rate Savings % taken off rate Risk Adjustment 1-3 % taken off rate portion of blended rate Based 0n CMS memo, Joint Rate-Setting Process Under the Capitated Financial Alignment Initiative, May

18 Base Rate States take lead in developing but CMS must review and approve Managed Care Portion: Historical spending trended forward. FFS Portion: Historical spending trended forward. Blended based on % of enrollees coming from MCOs vs. FFS 17

19 Overview of CMS rate-setting methodology Prospective Savings Quality Withhold Separate Part D payment Medicare A/B base rate Savings % taken off rate Medicare Risk Adjustment 1-3 % taken off rate Medicare A/B portion of blended rate base rate Savings % taken off rate Risk Adjustment 1-3 % taken off rate portion of blended rate Based 0n CMS memo, Joint Rate-Setting Process Under the Capitated Financial Alignment Initiative, May

20 Other aspects of methodology Prospective savings negotiated between state and CMS, same percentage taken out of Medicare and base rates In Massachusetts, 1% in year 1, 2% in year 2, 4% in year 3 Quality withhold same percentage taken out of Medicare and base rates, returned to plans if meet quality requirements/benchmarks 1% in year 1, 2% in year 2, 3% in year 3 Part D payment: National Average Bid Amount plus LIS amount Will not be subject to savings or quality withhold 19

21 Medicare Portion of Rate Problematic in Oregon Oregon FFS costs will continue to be much lower than MA benchmarks 13-16% below benchmarks after account for FFS SGR fix Why? Mechanics of MA rate-setting: New ACA rates leave MA benchmarks at relatively high % of FFS (expect to be 112.5% statewide average in 2014) 2012 average star rating of 3.82 vs. nat l average of 3.49 Estimated 64% of dually eligible individuals living in double bonus counties In blending FFS and MA, high MA penetration mitigates But plans currently serving this population compare demonstration rate to what they are currently getting vs. other states where this is a new market 20

22 Low Medicare FFS Costs in Oregon But why are FFS costs so low in the first place? Low utilization, particularly inpatient Concern that low FFS spending may be partially due to lack of access to care in FFS Medicare 21

23 Next Steps in Oregon Oregon will explore a modified demonstration with CMS, focusing on delivery system reforms underway in CCOs and Medicare/ administrative alignments with no financial component Will also continue to analyze integrated Medicare/ data to better understand the experience of the Medicare FFS population 22

24 23 Questions?

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